Subject: Pine 3.91 Help on Auto Response

From: greenleaf <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 17:31:51 +0530

Can anybody help us to know is there any way in pine for auto response. 
Meaning: If somebody E-mails us, then he/she will "Automatically Receive 
an Acknowledgement" saying  "Thank you for your E-mail. We will get back 
to you shortly etc... ". Keeping in mind that we are not logged in at 
that particular time when the mails comes. Something very similar to 
answering machine. Hope I am not asking for more ??? please help.

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Malad (East), Bombay - 400 097
Tel. No.: 91 22 840 0081
E-mail : "[email-masked]"

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 13:16:13 +0800 (GMT)

> answering machine. Hope I am not asking for more ??? please help.

	That is not one of the features which is intended for pine
to address.  (There's a pun in there someplace....  :-) )

	Anyway, you can do that very simply with your .forward file
and a script.

	In your .forward file you can put:

\localaddress
"|cat - >> /path/to/some/script"

	This will cause the mail to be delivered to your mailbox normally
and will also pipe the contents of the email to the "script" as STDIN.
You then simply parse the input put for the proper From: and send the
response.

	Warning: This will send a response to any and every message sent!!
This may cause undesirerable results.  You'd be better advised to
use a mail filter program such as procmail and use the rules to determine
when/if to send a response.

	Regards,

		Ed

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